From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2002-03-20T08:41:07+09:00
Subject: Re: dots in Dir.entries

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:44:04 GMT, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:

>If you were talking about the implementation of some major
>algorithm (like maybe a hanoi's tower), you would have a good
>point.  Given that all a programmer has to do is remove two
>names from a list, it doesn't make much difference to me how
>it's done.   If a programmer can not figure out the subtleties
>of some suitable command such as "if" and a string comparison,
>then they shouldn't be programming in the first place.

I'm OK with that if you're OK with having all the programsdo it a different way.
Just seemed to me that something that so many programs do might want to be
promoted.

Ronald E Jeffries
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